Date a Live:Date Under The Moon Chapter 85 85: Yakumo Summer Vacation (Part 2)

It was eight o'clock in the evening.

After dinner, Mikoto walked down the hallway alone.

Her destination was the hot spring not far away. Because of the Yamai sisters earlier, she had not been able to properly enjoy the healing warmth of the water at all.

[It was the sa during the school trip, and the sa today too. I was really looking forward to the hot spring…]

With a sigh, Mikoto reached the curtain marked "Won", then stopped.

[Wait… what if Kaguya and Yuzuru co in again?]

The mont she rembered how the Yamai sisters had touched her all over not long ago, Mikoto's face quickly turned red. Steam even seed to rise from her head.

[In that case…]

Her gaze shifted to the entrance on the other side—the n's bath.

Perhaps it was to welco the Spirits and Shido. Perhaps it was to stop DEM from interfering again. A few days ago, Kotori had planned to rent out the entire inn.

In the first place, Fensalir was a property owned by Ratatoskr, so doing that was not hard at all.

And aside from Reine, the crew of Fraxinus was still staying on the airship. In other words, the only person who might appear in the n's bath was Shido.

And Shido himself was currently playing table tennis, so—

[Decision made.]

Mikoto nodded and stepped into that space that was supposed to belong to n.

[This feels a little nostalgic…]

When she thought about how this was a place she, now transford into a girl, would never normally set foot in again, Mikoto felt a little emotional.

The hot spring at Fensalir was an ocean view bath. From one side, the sea could be seen directly.

Mikoto found a good spot, leaned her back against a rock in the water, and quietly admired the view under the evening sun.

"Phew, I'm exhausted."

Shido walked down the hallway, rubbing his slightly sore shoulder as he spoke tiredly.

After dinner, the Yamai sisters had suggested a table tennis match.

At first, everyone had taken turns playing. But after Mikoto left halfway through, what had started as a fun ga slowly turned into a cruel rotation battle of Spirits versus Shido.

In the end, Shido was finished off by Kotori with a brilliant smash.

Incidentally, as if it carried so kind of grudge, the ping-pong ball had rcilessly stamped itself onto his face.

[Co to think of it, Kotori's mood has been a little strange ever since she ca out of the hot spring.] (TL: I can only call it..the 'Loli Complex')

Shido touched his burning cheek.

"She was even saying things like… 'Liking the older sister type more than the little sister type is heresy.'"

He had no idea what had happened.

"I guess I'll go soak in the hot spring again." (TL:heh~ classic)

After the fierce exercise, he had worked up a sweat. After thinking it over, Shido headed toward the hot spring.

Since he was alone, the large bath felt rather luxurious. He found a place where he could see the beautiful view and sat down in a relaxed manner.

"Is Yakumo-senpai still angry?"

"Yes, I am still angry."

Shido sighed.

After his prank, every ti the girl looked at him, she had puffed up her cheeks in anger.

"I really should find a chance to apologize."

"If you apologize, I'll forgive you, Shido."

Even though Mikoto looked cute when she was angry, this was still not right.

"Anyway… huh? Ya… Ya… Yakumo-senpai?"

Finally noticing that sothing was off, Shido turned his head.

There, sitting beside him before he knew it, was Mikoto. The girl was smiling warmly at him.

And—

"W-why… why are you in the n's bath? Wait, I'll leave right now!"

Her tied-up hair, pale neck, and round shoulders were all exposed in front of Shido's eyes.

Her full chest and white thighs were faintly visible under the hot spring water, stirring the imagination. The girl's charm was far too tempting, making Shido dizzy.

He hurriedly stood up, ready to leave.

"If you run away, I'll get mad."

"Uu…"

However, hearing Mikoto's pouting declaration, Shido had no choice but to sit back down in the hot spring.

"But Senpai, why are you in the n's bath?"

"Thanks to a certain naughty little brat, I now have a su-per-scary ntal scar about the won's bath."

"Ahaha…"

Looking at the girl's cute half lidded glare, Shido awkwardly scratched his cheek.

The two sat together and watched the scenery across the horizon.

The afterglow of the setting sun scattered across the sea. It should have been a view that one could not look away from.

Yet Shido's gaze kept getting pulled toward another beautiful sight beside him.

The girl sat naked in the hot spring, her cheeks slightly red from embarrassnt. The water turned into clear droplets that slowly slid down the full curves of her chest.

For a boy, it was a sight far too dangerous.

Shido wanted to say sothing, but his throat felt dry.

"Um… I'm sorry."

In the end, he decided to apologize first for his earlier prank.

"It's fine. If anything, I'm the one who should apologize."

Mikoto shook her head.

"Why would Senpai need to apologize?"

Shido could not think of any reason she would need to.

"Because, Shido's harem—Tohka, Yoshino, Kotori, and Kaguya and Yuzuru—I saw all of them naked."

The girl smiled and touched her lips with a finger as she said that.

"Uh… it's not a harem. And…"

Shido awkwardly scratched his cheek. Even if it was not a harem, if Kotori and the others were really peeped on by so man, he would definitely get angry.

[But Yakumo-senpai…]

Just sitting beside him with that warm smile made Mikoto's girl power keep rising and rising. Shido simply could not connect the girl before him with the word "man".

"Ah, but I'm also part of Shido's harem, so please forgive ?" (TL: *shot down to the floor*)

[!!!]

Instead, those words from the girl made Shido's heart race.

"I'm also part of Shido's harem."

Just replaying that line in his mind was enough to drown him in happiness.

"S-speaking of which, Senpai, you feel embarrassed bathing with Tohka and the others, but you don't seem embarrassed being with ."

He had to change the topic.

Otherwise, his reason would lt away at high speed. Shido was certain of that.

"That's not true! If I had to say, I'm even more embarrassed than when I'm with Kotori and the others. My heart is beating really fast. Do you want to check, Shido?"

"No! Absolutely not!"

If he really reached his hand out, things like reason would shatter instantly. Shido hurriedly shook his head.

"But in that case, why do you still want to bathe with …"

Shido scratched his cheek and turned his head away, doing his best not to look at the girl's tempting figure.

They were both embarrassed. So why was Mikoto still insisting on being with him?

"First, because of Shido, Kaguya and Yuzuru did all kinds of embarrassing things to . So as a punishnt ga, I have to make Shido embarrassed too."

"Uu…"

The girl stared at Shido with those cute half-lidded eyes.

"Second, Shido is far too herbivore! You are basically a super—herbivore existence! So as a girl, I have to take the lead a little!"

"Uu!"

Watching Mikoto clench her small fists in front of her chest, looking embarrassed but still trying her best, Shido felt the wall of his reason begin to groan.

"R-right, Yakumo-senpai…"

He had to change the topic again!

Thinking that, Shido said:

"Why did you choose to beco a girl?"

Because Mikoto had said, "As a girl, I have to take the lead a little." That line reminded Shido of the ti at Mikoto's house, when the girl had pointed at a philosophy book and told him that she had chosen to beco a girl.

"Why?"

Mikoto tilted her head.

"Yeah. Since it was sothing you could choose, why did Senpai choose to beco a girl instead of continuing to live as a boy?"

He did not oppose Mikoto's choice, but he still did not understand why she had made it.

"Honestly, Shido, if you're this dense, I might cry."

Mikoto gave a wry smile, leaned her body against Shido, and whispered beside his ear:

"That is because the person who saved as a Spirit, and gave a happy life like this, was a cute boy." (TL:so sweet....she accept this life so fast, *shot down to the floor again*)

[!!!]

It was over.

Changing the topic was impossible.

His head had already gone hazy, and he could only think about Mikoto.

Feeling her warmth so close, her soft skin, and her sweet breath, Shido instinctively wanted to hold the girl in his arms.

"Huh?"

However, before his reason could collapse, his body reached its limit first.

After intense exercise, he had gone straight into the hot spring. Then Mikoto had tempted him with all kinds of close gestures and words.

Shido's vision went dark.

And he fainted beautifully in the hot spring.

TL:finished encore~ now for miku arc~